YPF named two project companies in its presentation to Argentina's Chamber of Deputies. One was already known. The other appears for the first time in a public company presentation, and it defines how debt will be raised for the pipelines and the processing plants
The Parma-based firm, with nearly 80 years of pipeline work across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, joins the consortium that won the 48-inch trunkline. Its gas history intertwines with ENI's and with Sicim's, the Italian firm awarded Southern Energy's parallel line.
The YPF-ENI-XRG venture handed the roughly $1.2 billion civil works for the 527-kilometer, 48-inch trunk line to a consortium of Pumpco, Bonatti, and Contreras Hermanos. The pipeline will move up to 100 million cubic meters per day (MMm³/d) of gas and remains tied to a final investment decision expected in the second half of 2026
The operator, formerly Petrolera Aconcagua Energía, will run three unconventional concessions on Vaca Muerta's eastern flank for 35 years, while Vista cedes half the shale economic rights to a jointly held company, URSA.
The commodities trader and Generadora Metropolitana have jointly acquired the 273-MW Los Guindos plant in Biobío, on a corridor already fed by Neuquén gas: a firm new consumer for the same molecule Trafigura finances upstream.
The Group CEO of Pan American Energy closed the Democracia y Desarrollo forum alongside YPF's Horacio Marín. From the Hormuz shock to the petroleum coke now shipping to China, his read on Argentina's emerging export map
Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno confirmed the accession for the June 25–26 summit in Washington. The initiative runs from critical minerals to energy before reaching semiconductors — and that is where Argentina's place is defined. The test shifts from the signature to financing and supply contracts.
YPF-operated gas output rose 9.2% in May to 32.33 MMm³/d, though it fell 4.08% year-on-year. The month's biggest mover was Aguada de la Arena, a 2025 concession the company has earmarked for the export chain
Official May 2026 data from Argentina's Secretariat of Energy mark a turning point: national crude output rose at an unprecedented pace, with Neuquén production up 35.8% year-on-year and reshaping the country's hydrocarbon map in real time
Tecnimont entered the Argentine radar by joining Sacde in the consortium pre-awarded the detailed engineering for Argentina LNG's first Neuquén gas separation plant. Behind the name sits the engineering arm of an Italian group with half a century building process plants, and the firm's biggest bet yet in Argentina
The Miguel Galuccio-led company averaged 139,469 bbl/d of crude in May, up 39.5% year-on-year, in its first full month consolidating Bandurria Sur and Bajo del Toro. Directly operated areas rose 2.8% from April.
In an interview, CEO Marian Milicic mapped the Rosario-based contractor — 2,500 employees, some 1,500 machines, a book split evenly between oil and copper — and described how it follows the sectors that pull investment. "We're the first to arrive," she said of the firm's role in Argentina's largest projects.
The agency lifted the producer one notch, but flagged a sharper move underneath: a standalone profile up to "b+" on a 44% drop in unit costs, with a base case built on 641,000 boe/d sustained through 2029
The country now accounts for 21% of regional output. Latin American and Caribbean gas production reached 28 billion m³ in January 2026, a 27% year-on-year increase.
The Colombia-headquartered producer and Neuquén province's state oil and gas company will combine Loma Jarillosa Este and Puesto Silva Oeste under a single project vehicle, with a target of scaling output from 1,500 to 20,000 bbl/d in three years
